Greenhouse & Gardens

I finally got around to getting a couple of pictures of inside the greenhouse.

Almost all the way down one wall there are about seven different kinks of tomato plants in about forty containers. I will say, even though we don't have the room for all those tomato plants it's good to be able to choose the best ones to go in the garden when that time comes.

 One side of a cut in half 55 gallon drum holds the spinach and the other half of the drum holds the lettuce. We only do the leaf type so we can go out every night and trim the tops for our dinner salads. The wife plants these in stages so we can have fresh salads all the time. This will continue until they start tasting bitter.   

All the herbs are coming up as well. Most of these will be planted in the cooks herb beds right out the back door of the kitchen. There are enough herbs planted to take up one full corner of the greenhouse. We are also doing a medical herb garden again this year so we can dry a bunch and make into salves or teas to cure any issue we are faced with, hopefully.

What is not shown here is the other side of the greenhouse that holds all the pepper plants and whatever else the wife has planted.
Right now we are having to keep a heater in the greenhouse to keep the temps at 75 degrees. I don't like it but it is a necessity right now to make sure these little things have a chance. All the greenhouse is watered by the harvested rain water and ran through the bio sand filter.

This weekend I am planting potatoes and carrots. I am trying a new way to plant the taters this year because the stacking wood towers I built did not yield as much as I needed them to do. We ended up having to purchase potatoes to put by to last all year. Even though I got them cheap, I still had to spend the money because of a failed attempt for the real thing. It was the first year I had to buy taters in a long time.
I will post on how I am planting them this time.

That's all I got for now,
Have a good day